'Dallas Buyers Club'

'Dallas Buyers Club'

Anne Marie Fox / Focus Features

Decade: 1980s Backdrop: Amid the AIDS crisis of the '80s, the film hops between a Texas rodeo, austere hospital rooms, an underground Mexican clinic and the anonymous motel from which Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) operated his titular pharmaceutical club. Fashion: McConaughey is cowboy-chic in blue jeans, T-shirt, boots and a Stetson, while Jared Leto, playing the transgender character Rayon, gets dolled up in shredded tights, miniskirts and garish makeup. Language: McConaughey and Leto make quite an odd couple, with Ron's swashbuckling Texas drawl — McConaughey's done a few — countered by Rayon's sass. There's more: This Texas story was in fact shot in New Orleans to take advantage of Louisiana's generous tax breaks.

Decade: 1980s Backdrop: Amid the AIDS crisis of the '80s, the film hops between a Texas rodeo, austere hospital rooms, an underground Mexican clinic and the anonymous motel from which Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) operated his titular pharmaceutical club. Fashion: McConaughey is cowboy-chic in blue jeans, T-shirt, boots and a Stetson, while Jared Leto, playing the transgender character Rayon, gets dolled up in shredded tights, miniskirts and garish makeup. Language: McConaughey and Leto make quite an odd couple, with Ron's swashbuckling Texas drawl — McConaughey's done a few — countered by Rayon's sass. There's more: This Texas story was in fact shot in New Orleans to take advantage of Louisiana's generous tax breaks. (Anne Marie Fox / Focus Features)

Decade: 1980s Backdrop: Amid the AIDS crisis of the '80s, the film hops between a Texas rodeo, austere hospital rooms, an underground Mexican clinic and the anonymous motel from which Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) operated his titular pharmaceutical club. Fashion: McConaughey is cowboy-chic in blue jeans, T-shirt, boots and a Stetson, while Jared Leto, playing the transgender character Rayon, gets dolled up in shredded tights, miniskirts and garish makeup. Language: McConaughey and Leto make quite an odd couple, with Ron's swashbuckling Texas drawl — McConaughey's done a few — countered by Rayon's sass. There's more: This Texas story was in fact shot in New Orleans to take advantage of Louisiana's generous tax breaks.